A great example of the ...

The New York Times Personal Health section posted an article about kidney disease. But the opening two paragraphs say an awful lot about the need to have the learner teach back information taught. I quote: * * * * * * A patient with early-stage kidney disease provided a recent wake-up...

What does patient educa...

I’ve gotten a request for a topic to address here, from Chuck Jones: Value Based Purchasing benchmarks. I admit, my initial reaction was, “huh?” But that’s because my job is not in hospital administration; I’m down in the trenches with the direct care staff and patients....

Links to recent researc...

I confess: I went on a summer vacation, a road trip to visit family and friends. Now I’m back, refreshed and renewed. I did not update this website in that time, but I did keep up on my Twitter tweets, disseminating the latest research (@notimetoteach). For those of you...